Are you adding the 4000 + chems back in that we are trying to avoid??? Not being disrespectful just trying to understand how this is accomplished PHD.....
Many of the 4000 (more or less) chemicals in cigarette smoke are pyrolytic.. I.E., they are the result of combustion. In the case of WTA, we isolate the nicotine and nicotine-like chemicals (alkaloids) from tobacco and discard the source tobacco. The source of what we know as "tar" is absent from the e-liquid, which is vaporized at a temperature far below that at which combustion occurs.
The operative principle that vapers are exercising is something referred to "harm reduction". We vape because we believe that
vaping is less harmful than smoking, but we don't (or at least we shouldn't) fool ourselves into believing that vaping is as safe as breathing clean mountain air.
Compared to an eliquid containing only nicotine, WTA is a more complex mixture. It stands to reason that WTA is not as safe as vaping nicotine only due to the increased complexity of the liquid. It is, however, this increased complexity that affords WTA the ability to help a struggling vaper not fall back to smoking analogs.
You either accept the idea of harm reduction or you don't. The anti-tobacco establishment tends to reject it with their "quit or die" attitude. Tobacco in all it's forms is, to them, unacceptable. Whether one form is less harmful than another is of no consequence... thus they would deny us less harmful alternatives to smoking, preferring that folks who might benefit from a less harmful alternative either "quit or die". Coincidentally, the anti-tobacco establishment is a big-money industry... and too bad that a lot of folks who simply can't quit, in the alternative, die.
